[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135508] Relative linked text sections should automatically read on document opening

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135508

--- Comment #7 from S.Zosgornik <live at hushmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #6)

> You seem to not read carefully. Specifically for this case, I explained in
> comment 4:
> 
> > Absolutely. The request is out of question, because automatically reading an
> > external document

Again, you speak about documents with links to external SITES while I speak
about locale files. LibreOffice isn't a web-browser nor an email-client. It
can't open web-sites other than in plain-text and the only concern would be
about external images that could track the users.

So I can totally agree to a secure setting to prevent LibO to open remote
files. Similar to the security setting of disable macros by default.

But the dialog says: "The document contains one or more links to external data.
Would you like to change the document, and update all links to get the most
recent data?" And even if you chose "No" will LibO include the data of the
linked document, just not updated to the current version.

Sure. buffer-overrun attempts can happen, even on local files downloaded from
the wrong source. But the right solution should be to ask the user to execute
macro data and open remote files rather than urge him to confirm his own
documents on every opening.

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